Product Description
Real Problem Solving is for every manager who knows that if it was as easy as most books and trainers make out, they’d be doing it already. Overworked managers know that management is about doing the best you can with what you’ve got, in the real world of organisations that are demanding more and more, for less and less.
Managers who know that doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity and know there is a better way of managing. But what if someone else had read all the management books, tried out all the ideas, worked out why they didn’t work in the real world, developed an approach that works and put it all in one practical accessible source. And what if that someone wasn’t a management guru, academic or consultant but an overworked manager like you who knew what you were up against and who didn’t preach at you about the one right way to do things or try to get you to be something you’re not.
This book offers you a way of blending the author's thinking framework with your experience to help you to be the best you can at solving problems.
From the Publisher
This book defines problems as unwanted effects, variations from the norm that we consciously, or subconsciously, expect. And it shows how we can make many of our problems simply disappear by changing our expectations to something more realistic. As for our real problems, the book offers a unique way of tracking back from the surface problems through a simple cause and effect analysis to the root cause problem before exposing and dissolving the core-conflict that’s at its heart. This way of engaging with a problem saves energy because it works like pulling up a weed by the roots. It gets rid of the problem at source, stopping lots of little problems springing up all over the place, which is what happens when you leave the root behind and just get rid of what’s showing on the surface.
